Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JohannesAugustin/Archive

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From their global behavioral pattern and contibution, especially @ el/WP and Commons, there is no doubt that user JohannesAugustin is Vassilis Mazomenos (see his statement at Commons) promoting himself directy and iderecty on several WPs. (Prior to this account Mazomenos' pushing was done by user Mazo1964, blocked indef. @ en/WP since 2014, and then followed user Guest1964, aslo blocked indef. @ en/WP, as a sock, on May, 27 2014; user JohannesAugustin appeared right afterwards with edits on Mazomenos.)

On June 23-24, 2020 filed a deletion proposal for the article on Mazomenos, and another one for the article on one of his films; see Articles for deletion/Vassilis Mazomenos and Articles for deletion/Exile (2019 film). There, both Glucken123 and myself made some remarks on account JohannesAugustin as an SPA, as an account that belongs to Mazomenos,COI etc. After that, JohannesAugustin refrained from editing, but on the 25th of June user Arcadia46 appeared out of the blue following the pattern of JohannesAugustin. Note, that their very first edit of Arcadia46 was this, directly related to a comment I had made in the first of the abovementioned deletion requests in order to stress the existing cross-wiki COI of the user, that JohannesAugustin/Mazomenos "even tried to create an article about his father, but it was deleted for lacking notability". Furthermore, a bit later user Arcadia46 removed these sections, an edit directly related to my remarks on the other AfD discussion about the kind of reviews and awards the film of Mazomenos got. ǁ ǁǁ ǁ Chalk19 (talk) 08:13, 28 June 2020 (UTC) ǁ ǁǁ ǁ Chalk19 (talk) 08:13, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

PS. The initial account seems to be user Menos64 (Mazo + Menos =Mazomenos !!!) back in 2009. ǁ ǁǁ ǁ Chalk19 (talk) 10:20, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Almost certain that the accounts are connected, the question is whether this is sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:41, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * It's sockpuppetry. and  are ✅.   Maxim (talk)  23:26, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Per CU findings, GeneralNotability (talk) 01:04, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Only edits the same three articles as JohannesAugustin and went to each to remove the COI tag without adding anything else to the articles.


 * Lines (film)
 * Money, A Mythology of Darkness
 * 10th Day

These are the same articles Mazo1964 was blocked for disruptive editing on so in fact that may be the sockmaster account. Notfrompedro (talk) 17:56, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * I'm reasonably sure they're a sock, and if not, they would certainly qualify for a NOTHERE block. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:34, 8 July 2021 (UTC)